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From [email protected] Fri May 16 08:02:13 1997
Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 02:02:51 GMT
From: michael p mccullough
To: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: TAB: Pretty Words ////// Elvis Costello
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar.tablature,alt.guitar.tab,alt.fan.elvis-costello
Pretty Words
Words & Music by: Elvis Costello
>From the album: TRUST
Note: This song was recorded in the key of F major,
but I transposed it to Gmajor. I am just more used
to the chords in G. For the original key of F version
please refer to the songbook.
Also, I am not the world's finest transposer, so let
me know what what mistakes you find! thanks, m.
G
I ask you nicely
DEmFC
Get my face slapped under wraps
G
What's going on precisely
DEm
Is there something wrong perhaps?
CD7G
Surprise, surprise (surprise, surprise)
DCD7GDEmD
It's more like a booby trap than a booby prize
GDEmFC
Civil disobedience from a soldier with a dirty rifle
GDEm
You're loosening all the screws that hold the hinges of my life
CD7G
Fat cats and army brats
CD7GDEmFC
Hep cats in dog tag pawing over girly mags
CHORUS:
GF Bm C#mDE6
Pretty words don't mean much anymore
G Bb EmF#m
I don't mean to be mean much anymore
GC
All I see are snapshots, bigshots, tender spots
(1) mug shots, machine slots
(2) machine slots, mug shots
'Till you don't know what's what
EmFC
You don't know what you got
GDEmFC
Curious women running after curious men
G
Curiosity didn't kill the cat
DEm
It was a poisoned pen
CD7GD
But there's not much choice (it's Hobson's choice)
CD7GDEmD
Between a cruel mouth and a jealous voice
G
Got back to London
DEm
Picked a paper from the man
G
No words of consolation
DEm
Just cartoons and titter tatter
CD7G
Well well, fancy that
CD7GC
Millions murdered for a kiss me quick hat
G
No backbone, blood and guts
DEmF
Better keep your big mouth shut
(Chorus)
FCG
You don't know what you got . . . .
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